Australia's government plans to filter all web access, but groups like Open Internet aren't all that concerned. As the advocacy group's video shows, at least five easy methods can beat Australia's filter—and probably any filters you're under, too.

For those of us not in the .au sphere, the video is a good refresher course on the common ways to beat content filters that are broadly applied and not all that smart. Finding the Google Cache or Internet Archive version of a page and finding a free proxy are simple enough, even if setting up a VPN takes a bit more effort. The other two are even more confusingly simple: simply add an "s," to make a web address start with "https://", and you'll get to the encrypted, secure connection version of most sites, or add a question mark to the tail end of most site URLs. Those last two might not break one out of any halfway decent corporate or public system, but it will, apparently, break Australia's own filtering tools.